SIGDial Conference (2009)

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Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference 54 papers

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Patrick Healey | Roberto Pieraccini | Donna Byron | Steve Young | Matthew Purver

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Information Presentation in a Full End-To-End Dialogue System
Taghi Paksima | Kallirroi Georgila | Johanna Moore

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Can I Finish? Learning When to Respond to Incremental Interpretation Results in Interactive Dialogue
David DeVault | Kenji Sagae | David Traum

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Are You Being Addressed? - Real-Time Addressee Detection to Support Remote Participants in Hybrid Meetings
Harm op den Akker | Rieks op den Akker

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What’s Unique About Dialogue?
Janet Bavelas

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Incremental Reference Resolution: The Task, Metrics for Evaluation, and a Bayesian Filtering Model that is Sensitive to Disfluencies
David Schlangen | Timo Baumann | Michaela Atterer

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Towards the Interpretation of Utterance Sequences in a Dialogue System
Ingrid Zukerman | Patrick Ye | Kapil Kumar Gupta | Enes Makalic

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Participant Subjectivity and Involvement as a Basis for Discourse Segmentation
John Niekrasz | Johanna Moore

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Genre-Based Paragraph Classification for Sentiment Analysis
Maite Taboada | Julian Brooke | Manfred Stede

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Detecting the Noteworthiness of Utterances in Human Meetings
Satanjeev Banerjee | Alexander Rudnicky

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A: An Experimental Investigation into... B: ...Split Utterances
Christine Howes | Patrick Healey | Gregory Mills

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Interactive Gesture in Dialogue: a PTT Model
Hannes Rieser | Massimo Poesio

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Tense, Temporal Expressions and Demonstrative Licensing in Natural Discourse.
Iker Zulaica-Hernández | Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach

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Prosodic Turn-Yielding Cues With and Without Optical Feedback
Caroline Clemens | Christoph Diekhaus

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Exploring Miscommunication and Collaborative Behaviour in Human-Robot Interaction
Theodora Koulouri | Stanislao Lauria

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A Two-Tier User Simulation Model for Reinforcement Learning of Adaptive Referring Expression Generation Policies
Srinivasan Janarthanam | Oliver Lemon

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Analysis of Listening-Oriented Dialogue for Building Listening Agents
Toyomi Meguro | Ryuichiro Higashinaka | Kohji Dohsaka | Yasuhiro Minami | Hideki Isozaki

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On NoMatchs, NoInputs and BargeIns: Do Non-Acoustic Features Support Anger Detection?
Alexander Schmitt | Tobias Heinroth | Jackson Liscombe

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Estimating Probability of Correctness for ASR N-Best Lists
Jason Williams | Suhrid Balakrishnan

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Not a Simple Yes or No: Uncertainty in Indirect Answers
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe | Scott Grimm | Christopher Potts

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Concept Form Adaptation in Human-Computer Dialog
Svetlana Stoyanchev | Amanda Stent

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Automatic Generation of Information State Update Dialogue Systems that Dynamically Create Voice XML, as Demonstrated on the iPhone
Helen Hastie | Xingkun Liu | Oliver Lemon

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Dialog System for Mixed Initiative One-Turn Address Entry and Error Recovery
Rajesh Balchandran | Leonid Rachevsky | Larry Sansone | Roberto Sicconi

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Leveraging POMDPs Trained with User Simulations and Rule-based Dialogue Management in a Spoken Dialogue System
Sebastian Varges | Silvia Quarteroni | Giuseppe Riccardi | Alexei Ivanov | Pierluigi Roberti

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Speeding Up the Design of Dialogue Applications by Using Database Contents and Structure Information
Luis Fernando D’Haro | Ricardo de Cordoba | Juan Manuel Lucas | Roberto Barra-Chicote | Ruben San-Segundo

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Modeling User Satisfaction with Hidden Markov Models
Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht | Florian Gödde | Felix Hartard | Hamed Ketabdar | Sebastian Möller

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Discourse Structure and Performance Analysis: Beyond the Correlation
Mihai Rotaru | Diane Litman

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The Role of Interactivity in Human-Machine Conversation for Automatic Word Acquisition
Shaolin Qu | Joyce Chai

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Clarification Potential of Instructions
Luciana Benotti

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What do We Know about Conversation Participants: Experiments on Conversation Entailment
Chen Zhang | Joyce Chai

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Artificial Companions as Dialogue Agents
Yorick Wilks

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Effects of Conversational Agents on Human Communication in Thought-Evoking Multi-Party Dialogues
Kohji Dohsaka | Ryota Asai | Ryuichiro Higashinaka | Yasuhiro Minami | Eisaku Maeda

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Models for Multiparty Engagement in Open-World Dialog
Dan Bohus | Eric Horvitz

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Extracting Decisions from Multi-Party Dialogue Using Directed Graphical Models and Semantic Similarity
Trung Bui | Matthew Frampton | John Dowding | Stanley Peters

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Learning to Predict Engagement with a Spoken Dialog System in Open-World Settings
Dan Bohus | Eric Horvitz

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Turn-Yielding Cues in Task-Oriented Dialogue
Agustín Gravano | Julia Hirschberg

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Split Utterances in Dialogue: a Corpus Study
Matthew Purver | Christine Howes | Eleni Gregoromichelaki | Patrick Healey

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Comparison of Classification and Ranking Approaches to Pronominal Anaphora Resolution in Czech
Giang Linh Ngụy | Václav Novák | Zdeněk Žabokrtský

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Spoken Tutorial Dialogue and the Feeling of Another’s Knowing
Diane Litman | Kate Forbes-Riley

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Evaluating Automatic Extraction of Rules for Sentence Plan Construction
Amanda Stent | Martin Molina

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Eliciting Interactional Phenomena in Human-Human Dialogues
Joakim Gustafson | Miray Merkes

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TELIDA: A Package for Manipulation and Visualization of Timed Linguistic Data
Titus von der Malsburg | Timo Baumann | David Schlangen

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Cascaded Lexicalised Classifiers for Second-Person Reference Resolution
Matthew Purver | Raquel Fernández | Matthew Frampton | Stanley Peters

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Attention and Interaction Control in a Human-Human-Computer Dialogue Setting
Gabriel Skantze | Joakim Gustafson

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Ranking Help Message Candidates Based on Robust Grammar Verification Results and Utterance History in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Kazunori Komatani | Satoshi Ikeda | Yuichiro Fukubayashi | Tetsuya Ogata | Hiroshi Okuno

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Dialogue Behaviour under High Cognitive Load
Jessica Villing

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A Comparison between Dialog Corpora Acquired with Real and Simulated Users
David Griol | Zoraida Callejas | Ramón López-Cózar

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Simultaneous Dialogue Act Segmentation and Labelling using Lexical and Syntactic Features
Ramon Granell | Stephen Pulman | Carlos-D. Martínez-Hinarejos

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The Spoken Dialogue Challenge
Alan Black | Maxine Eskenazi

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Unsupervised Classification of Dialogue Acts using a Dirichlet Process Mixture Model
Nigel Crook | Ramon Granell | Stephen Pulman

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A Handsome Set of Metrics to Measure Utterance Classification Performance in Spoken Dialog Systems
David Suendermann | Jackson Liscombe | Krishna Dayanidhi | Roberto Pieraccini

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Contrasting the Interaction Structure of an Email and a Telephone Corpus: A Machine Learning Approach to Annotation of Dialogue Function Units
Jun Hu | Rebecca Passonneau | Owen Rambow